Thirty years before the American Colonies’ Declaration of Independence, Juan Bautista de Anza II was born at the Spanish Empire’s presidio outpost,...
Juan Bautista de Anza: Sonora’s Son of the Empire
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Henry Larkin Abbot
From the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans, in peacetime and on bloody fields of war, Henry L. Abbot engineered the infrastructure of a new...
Rough Drafts 3/15
This year True West marks the conclusion of the sesquicentennial of the Civil War—the beginning of the post-war West, and the 125th memorial of the...
CRITERION AND MR. FORD
“I knew Wyatt Earp...I was an assistant prop boy then...and he told me about the fight at the O.K. Corral.” John Ford’s statement to Peter...
The Touch Of Roy and Dale, Vol. Ii
Like Volume I, The Touch of Roy and Dale is a collection of letters, photographs and anecdotes from people whose lives were touched by Roy Rogers...
Gordon Snidow
What I have seen, lived and painted is only a chapter in the saga called the West. What we used to call the future is now the past. It is called the...
Year of the Indian
Art collectors were not surprised that the world-famous cowboy artist Charles M. Russell got his highest sale of the year with an American Indian...
The Ball that Killed Wild Bill
If Wild Bill Hickok was buried in Deadwood, South Dakota, in 1876, why was the bullet that killed him buried in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1910? You...
Arrest Those Spies!
With all the pomp the Spanish officer could muster so far from present-day Santa Fe, New Mexico, Lt. Facundo Melgares rode into the sprawling Pawnee...
The Valiant and Brave
Frankly, I don’t get re-enactors. Like that overweight, redneck Civil War buff I saw years back, firing his musket, then yelling at advancing Yankee...
Top 10 True Western Towns of 2015
Top 10 True Western Towns - What makes a True Western Town? Well, there’s history, of course. Whether it’s about lawmen and gunfighters, ranchers...
The Wife of Wyatt Earp’s Sworn Enemy
“I have been nearly driven to distraction!” So said Victoria Zaff Behan, with the culprit being her well-known husband, John Harris Behan. This was...